Sling. A rope or chain by which a lower yard is suspended.
Sprit-sail. A quadrangular sail stretched from the mast by the help, not
of a gaff along its top, but of a sprit (or yard) extending from the mast
diagonally to the upper aftmost corner of the sail, as in the case of a
London barge.
Sprit-sail yard. Another name for the sprit.
Standing rigging. The parts of a vessel's rigging that are practically
permanent.
Starboard. The right side of a ship looking towards the bow.
Stern-chasers. See Chasers.
Streaks (or strakes). Lines of planking.
Supercargo. A person employed by the owners of a ship to go a voyage and
to oversee the cargo.
Tacks ("got our tacks on board," chapter 17). Ropes for hauling down and
fastening the corners of certain sails.
Taffrail. The upper part of the stern of a ship.
Tie-wig. See Wig.
Tradewind. See Winds.
Transom. A beam across the stern-post to strengthen the after part of the
ship.
Traverse. To turn guns to the right or left in aiming.
Wake. The track left by a ship.
Warp. To move a vessel into another position by hauling upon a hawser
attached usually to the heads of piles or posts of a wharf.
Wear (a ship). To bring a ship about by putting the helm up. The vessel
is first run off before the wind and then brought to on the new tack.
Weather:
1. The windward side.
2. To go to windward of.
Wig. A bag-wig is a wig with a bag to hold the back hair. It was
fashionable in the seventeenth century.
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